The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 173
With a bound Cuchullain, from the bank high springing, lit Full on the broad boss of Ferdīa’s shield, His dagger-point down turned.
Who acts: broad boss, Ferdīa · What happens: light, turn, point · To what, where: broad boss, dagger point
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (broad boss, Ferdīa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 bound | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bound | det |
| 3 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lit | obl |
| 4 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bound | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 springing | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 springing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 springing | det |
| 8 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 springing | compound |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 springing | amod |
| 10 | springing | springing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bound | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bound | punct |
| 12 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Full | full | ADV | _ | 12 lit | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 boss | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boss | det |
| 16 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boss | amod |
| 17 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lit | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 shield | case |
| 19 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 shield | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Ferdīa | case |
| 21 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boss | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 point | punct |
| 23 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 point | nmod:poss |
| 24 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 point | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 dagger | punct |
| 26 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turned | obl |
| 27 | down | down | ADV | _ | 28 turned | advmod |
| 28 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 boss | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past | the broad boss of Ferdīa's shield | with a bound and the bank high springing; full property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with bound=Material | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the broad boss of Ferdīa's shield not said here | Ferdīa's dagger point | down property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | point | Ferdīa | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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